Month: March 2013

A week ago primary school teacher Lucy Meadows was found dead at her home. Over the last week there has been a great deal of interest in the case. There has been a vigil outside a national newspaper office; there are petitions calling for an individual journalist to be sacked; there is the prospect of a … Read more

This page contains the available public information and many of the more significant links in respect of the death of Lucy Meadows. I do not endorse the content of all the links. My own post on her death is here and I did a BBC interview here (starts at 25:20). Please note that this page is for information only; … Read more

Lucy Meadows is dead. She was a popular teacher at a primary school. But on Tuesday, police and an ambulance were called to her home. She was found dead. Her death is not being treated as suspicious. Already various people have said she took her own life. Helen Belcher reports that friends said that Lucy Meadows had spoke … Read more

Over at the Spectator my friend Nick Cohen has blogged about the disclosure of evidence by the Sunday Times in respect of the prosecutions of Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce. Nick in turn links to a statement from the Crown Prosecution Service about this disclosure. There are two points of particular interest in that statement. First, it would appear that the the CPS regarded that … Read more

So the Human Rights Act and the European Court of Human Rights are in the news. One Tory Minister wants to repeal the Act, and another wants us to withdraw from the Court. The extent to which either of these propositions make sense is expertly set out by Adam Wagner, perhaps the UK’s leading legal blogger. … Read more